Mantel and stove combined



(No Model.)l

W. SCHMITZ.

MANTBL AND STOVE COMBINED. No. 269,330. Patented Dec. 19,1882.

N. PETERS. Pnolo-Lmogmphur. whingmnA 0.0.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

` WILLIAM SCHMITZ, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

MANTEL AND STOVE COMBINED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,330, dated December 19, 1882.

Application filed January 9, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM SCHMITZ, ot'

I NVatei-bury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Mantel and Stove Combined, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to obtain a stove adapted to heating or cooking, or both, and to render it ornamental and available as a mantel, and at the same time protect the clothing from contact with the stove.

My improved stove is especially adapted to rooms which 'are used as' cooking and sitting rooms,or those in which it is desirable to avoid the loss of space occupied by a stove, and to use the same as a mantel or slab without injury from the heat of the stove.

ln the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section ofthe stove and mantel. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan at the line x Fig. 3 is a seetional plan at y y, and Fig. 4 is a front elevation.

The stove portion is made of sheet or cast metal, and consists of a base, c, containing an ash-drawer, b, supported on ways l l, and having a top plate, c, with a central opening below the tire. The body of the stove h is oblong, and it is provided with the grate c, supply-doorf, and one or more openings with covers in the top plate, g. There may be any suitable lining of fire-brick to the fuel-pot d, and the grate may be circular, s'o as to be shaken upon a central pivot, and the door j' is sutliciently above the tire to allow of being used in broiling food over the tire. Near one end of the stove h is a vertical iiue, L, for the products of combustion to pass up into the horizontal ilue Z and Vreturn back by the second horizontal flue, m, and thence pass oii' at the back of the pipe n to the chimney. There is an opening at n into the lower side of the flue m, and a damper, 3, by the opening of which the fumes from cooking on the stove will b`e drawn into theI pipe m and taken to the chimnev.

lVhen this stove is to be adapted to baking,

the re is placed at one end, and there is an,

oven, as seen at 1J, with iiues around it of the ordinary character,so that baking can be done in this stove, as well as boiling and broiling.

The surrounding ornamental inclosure is made to resemble a mantel, and the slab q may be of slate or any suitable stone.

The vertical angle-slabs r r and s s are pref'- erably of stone, and so, also, is the vertical front piece or lintel, q, beneath the mantel g. These parts are put together by angle-irons and bolts, or in any suitable manner. The angle-slabs 1 r s s may rest at their lower ends upon the floor; but I prefer to employ the castmetal feet r s', as shown. The surfaces ofthe stone slabs-may be plain, or more or less orna- Inented. There are open-work metal panels t at the ends, between the angle-slabs r and s. These may be hinged at the back edges, and provided with a latch or fastening at the other edges, so to be swung open when desired.

The open-work metal doors u u in the front part of the case or inclosure are hinged upon the angle-slabs, or upon the angle-iron frame for said slabs, and can be swung open to give access to the tire, or for cooking or baking.

The ornamental metal border at szserves to I strengthen the connections of the stone slabs and to ornament theeasing. These parts are bolted together by screw-boltspassingthrough the stone and metal at the required places and eitherscrewing into the metal or provided with nuts.

There is a metal back plate at b extending all across the back, and thereis an air-space between the saine and theplate b2. This air-space opensatthetopintothewarm-airspace between the horizontal plates b3 and b4, so that heat will not pass to the wall behind the stove, but the air will pass in below the lower edge ofthe plate b2, and also in through an opening in the plate b2 behind the stove, and thence pass up and travel forward, coming out into the room through the upper partof the open-work doors.

The space between the Yhorizontal plate b3 and the under side of the mantel q is preferably lled, or partially so, with ashes or other non-conducting material to keep the mantel cool; but a water-box, b5, may rest directly upon the plate b3, so that water may be warmed by the heated air, or by a pipe passing down to the stove, in which water circulates. The water may be admitted into this box by a cock and pipe from any suitable head and drawn off by a faucet as required.

I make a sheet-metal easing, r2, inside the IOO . i Y l angle-slabs s s, and this casing is open at both l top and bottom, so that air may circulate upwardly between suoli casing and the angleslabs to keep such slabs cool, and the said casing r2 forms a shield to prevent the heat from the stove acting directly upon the slabs.

The panel s3 in front of the ash-drawer is removable to give access to said ashdrawer. The panel should he hinged at one end, and the slides upon which the ash-drawer rest are lower than the lower edge of the opening, so that the ash-drawer has to be lifted to remove it. This prevents dust being drawn out upon the slides as the drawer is moved.

This stove is to be distinguished from heaters that are set into a brick tire-place, because my improvement is complete in itself and portable, and maybe set against a wall with safety because of the air spaces and tiues through which air circulates. y

I claim as my inventionl. The portable stove a'ud mantel, in combination with the open-work front supporting the mantel, a plate below the mantel, non'conducting material between the same and the slab, two or more'metal plates with intermediate air-spaces behind the stove to protect a partition or wall, against which the mantelstove may be placed,t'rom heat, and a metal plate and air-spaces below the stove, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The stove having a lire-pot and an opening in thetop plate for cooking utensils, in combination with the ascending ue k, the connected horizontal Ilues l and lm, having the opening at n for the escape of fumes from the cooking, and a damper, 3, for the same, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the mantel-slabs q and the angle-slabs t' S, of the open-Work 'metal doors between such angle-slabs, and a stove surrounded and protected by such slabs and iron work, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the mantel q, the angle-slabs, and stove, of the mantel'casing r2 inside the angle-slabs, for the purposes and substantially as set forth.

5. In combination with the mantel, the oruamental open-work inclosure and the stove within the same, a water-box beneath the mantel, and a. iilling of non-conducting material, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 2d day of January, 1882.

` WILLIAM SCHMITZ. Witnesses:

GEO. H. GOWELL, CHAs. W. GILLE'ITE. 

